· Private foundation
Farnham Charitable Fund
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k21 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $115,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| DELBARTON SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSTIY OF ST THOMAS | $25,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $21,590 |
| ALIGHT | $15,000 |
| GUILD INCORPORATED | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE - USA | $15,000 |
| ST OLAF COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| BOLDE OPTIONS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 17 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $161k · revenue +105%
- MUMarquette University2× · 2021–2022 · $41k · revenue +16%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MFMONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -39%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MONTECITO LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- NPNORWOOD PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICone grant, 2018 · $800
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HUNGER ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Gay Mens Chorus ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE SOCIETY FOR JAZZ ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The K Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Farnham Charitable Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.